linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications

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Message-ID: <add63931-2b94-4bd4-a8a3-b5754671b437@lucifer.local>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:30:09 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Liam R. Howlett" <howlett@...il.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, kernel-team@...a.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
 classifications

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 09:47:46AM -0700, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Cleanup madvise entry level code for cleaner request validations and
> classifications.
>
> Note that this series was a part of another one[1], and separated to
> this one following a reviewer's nice comment[2].

Thanks :>)

>
> Changes from the original series
> (https://lore.kernel.org/20250310172318.653630-1-sj@kernel.org)
> - Separate from the tlb flushes batching part
> - Collect Reviewed-by: tags from Lorenzo
> - Fix typos and wordsmith commit messages and comments
> - Rebase on latest mm-unstable
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20250310172318.653630-1-sj@kernel.org
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/0f90d56e-5960-4478-803e-1054696c0cde@lucifer.local
>
> SeongJae Park (4):
>   mm/madvise: use is_memory_failure() from madvise_do_behavior()
>   mm/madvise: split out populate behavior check logic
>   mm/madvise: deduplicate madvise_do_behavior() skip case handlings
>   mm/madvise: remove len parameter of madvise_do_behavior()
>
>  mm/madvise.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 733c75c2264b9de72a463f731507e674a32ff094
> --
> 2.39.5